10:12 PM,
Oct. 4, 2012

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Father Christiaan Kappes has lived in four countries and speaks eight languages. He has been a chaplain to murderers in a Mexican prison, a student at the Vatican and most recently an emissary from Rome to the Orthodox Church in Greece.

Bright and level-headed is how family and church officials describe the 36-year-old Kappes, who as a boy attended Holy Name parish in Beech Grove and grew up to be ordained a priest by the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.

So it is with growing concern that they try to piece together the mystery over what has happened to the young priest. Kappes went missing Monday in ...